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1. Love & learning, or The Oxford scholar [graphic]
- Creator:
- Smith, Benjamin, -1833, engraver
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.05.12.02+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A handsome young man embrasses a pretty young woman wearing a fashionable hat as the stand in a grove of trees; he leans toward her, their checks touching. To the right, another pretty young woman peaks out from behind a tree and watches the pair with a distressed look on her face
- Alternative Title:
- Love and learning and Oxford scholar
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below title and above imprint statement, six lines of verse in two columns: Beauty invites and love & learning plead; The Oxford scholar surely must succeed, Yet Oh, ye blooming soft inclining fair, Of his too fatal eloquence beware; For see a slighted fair one is behind with jealous eye & most distracted mind.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published 12th May 1786, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Courtship, Couples, Envy, Kissing, Students, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Love & learning, or The Oxford scholar [graphic]
